"Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can."

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Source : Jan Karon (2007). “Home to Holly Springs”, p.268, Penguin

Jan Karon

#Practice Quotes #Feelings Quotes #Sometimes Quotes

“When I stop working the rest of the day is posthumous. I'm only really alive when I'm writing.”
“You cannot even begin to understand contemporary African politics if you have not read this fascinating book”
“If it is true that men are better than women because they are stronger, why aren't our sumo wrestlers in the government?”
“It seems to me that for Darwin the pulsing of evolutionary rates was a strictly vertical phenomenon.”
“Possession and exorcism is something that's in every religion and every culture. It's a real primal fear: Is the body a vessel for our spirits? What happens if something else takes over it? Where does the spirit go?”
“What's one more torpedo in a sinking ship.”
“2006 Games -by then, my identity had started to shift. Before that, my identity was in snowboarding. That's how people knew me and that's how I knew myself. That's where I got a lot of my self worth. That began to shift and I started to understand that I didn't get my worth from people or from the things that I did. It was from Christ. If I hadn't had that shift in my life, I think my world would have come crumbling down.”
“Confidence is the most important quality in all athlete-coach relationships.”

Source : FaceBook post by Jack Nicklaus from Jan 14, 2014

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